Description of a Nc7u Phalloid. 171 



DKSCRIPTION OF A NEW PHALLOID. 

 Bv A. P. Morgan. 



The following new and very singular member of the 

 Phalloidese was first found b^- me nearly ten years ago. 



The plate which illustrates it is a copy of one made in oil- 

 colors, and dated June 30, 1883. On account of my scanty 

 material and the abnormal structure of the plant, I did not 

 venture to publish it among my North American Phalloidcce. 

 Since that time, however, I have received specimens from 

 Ciranville, Ohio, sent by Prof. C. J. Herrick, and from Syra- 

 cuse, New York, and from West Goshen, Connecticut, sent by 

 Prof. L. M. Underwood. 



Being well satisfied that the plant has never before been 

 described, and having good and sufficient evidence of its 

 growth and very peculiar and abnormal structure, I, there- 

 fore, now proceed to describe and figure it as I understand it. 



PhallooAvSTER, Morgan, Gen., nov. 



Mycelium fibrous, much branched. Peridium obovoid, con- 

 sisting of two concrete layers, an inner and an outer one, 

 rupturing irregularly. Gleba composed of numerous roundish 

 irregular masses, or lobes of a green color, attached to the 

 inner surface of the upper part of the peridium ; spores 

 minute, oblong, hyaline. 



This is a remarkably abnormal member of the Phalloideae. 

 It does not develop an enlarged receptacle with a volva at 

 the base, and there is no gelatinous layer between the inner 

 and outer coats of the peridium. It forms a closer connec- 

 tion between the Phalloideae and the Lycoperdacese than has 

 hitherto been known. 



